Negative Effects Of Macbeth

Throughout Macbeth by William Shakespeare, readers become aware of the significant impact that results from characters obtaining ruthlessness, and how it undoubtedly affects the outcome of the play. Macbeth believes he needs to be involved in a massive amount of murders as he is continuously blindsided by his ruthlessness leading him to disrupt “the harmony in the Scottish state”(Berger 1). He has numerous self doubts throughout the novel which greatly affect his mental status causing him to become aware of the negative change he has made in his life. Macbeth becomes self-absorbed with pursual towards attaining the crown as he does not question the effect it will have on society. William Shakespeare purposefully uses acts of violence, and “the play shows how evil naturally destroys itself--or else, in a slightly different version, it shows how divine providence again and again offers Macbeth chances to reject temptation, to repent, to regain what one writer calls his "Christian self esteem"(Beger 1).

Even though “Macbeth’s unholy act of murder seems to trigger off unnatural phenomena”(Berger 1) as society lacks King Duncan, Macbeth will be able to slowly return society back to its original order by learning how to restrict himself from being involved in these vicious acts. Macbeth’s main focal point only rewards himself, and this ruthlessness is due to his “sense of self, status, and role in this society, his sense of the world, his sense of others---these are deeply structured by his position in the order”(Berger 1). The quality of ruthlessness causes readers to clearly see the serious ramifications it creates for Macbeth. Macbeth’s temptation prompts characters to see him as a self-centered human